Aspen Music Festival

Schedule:

10:00 am

Opera Encounters

$40

Wheeler Opera House

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Co-Artistic Director Renée Fleming and opera director Peter Sellars coach the program's major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching.

1:00 pm

Music on the Mountain

Free

Top of Aspen Mountain

AMFS music students play light chamber music with the stunning Elk Mountain Range as a backdrop. Bring a picnic or purchase lunch at the Sundeck restaurant. (Gondola ticket or strenuous hike required to get to this event.)

4:30 pm

Chamber Music

$45

Harris Concert Hall

JIHYUN KIM: Once Upon a Time

MORTON SUBOTNICK: The Key to Songs

SCHUBERT: Piano Trio in B-flat major, D. 898, op. 99

AMFS artist-faculty, all top musicians from renowned orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories, come together to play their favorite chamber music works. Always a joyful and creative 75 minutes of music-making.

7:30 pm

All Rachmaninoff Evening with Pianists Daniil Trifonov and Sergei Babayan

$85

Harris Concert Hal

RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos, Fantaisie-tableaux, op. 5
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, op. 17
RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances, op. 45

Experience the magic of a student-mentor relationship when Daniil Trifonov teams up with his former teacher, Armenian-American pianist Sergei Babayan. This all-Rachmaninoff program begins with the composer’s youthful 1st Suite for Two Pianos, with its thrilling finale reminiscent of tolling bells and Russian liturgical chant. The more mature 2nd Suite is full of rich melodies which evoke Rachmaninoff’s popular 2nd Piano Concerto, and a dazzling tarantella that had a Los Angeles audience on its feet several years ago. Topping off the program is the two-piano version of the composer’s Symphonic Dances, a tour de force sure to display the virtuosity and almost telepathic connection between these two pianistic powerhouses.

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